if someone who s a bad actor wishes to shut it down, do they have the opportunity to do so? i think that s up to the faa. i see no reason at all why the system which we use couldn t be hard wired so it could not be shut down from the cockpit if in fact thats with a the problem in 370. is there any opposition to the programming methodology that you re describing from the pilots? i ask that question because i previously advocated the realtime transmission of cockpit data. i know that raises privacy concerns. they would have no issue with what you re describing? i have never heard that the pilots unit had pilots union had any problem at all with what i m describing. i think it s a tremendous enhancement to what we all want to have in a post 2001 world. it just seems so obvious, and since the technology is there, let s use it. final question if i might.